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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Provide water station stops and set up a picnic at the end for people that raise money. Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Movies for Impact. Sell concessions like popcorn, soda, and candy for charity, and make a public ask for donations for the cause before the movie starts.

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44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars

NetWits

Supporters raise significant amounts of money and bring new donors to your organization. million raised annually since 2004 by helping participants become fundraisers. 50 gift card for $5,000 raised). Not only do teams raise more money for your organization, they add camaraderie and competition to fundraising.

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Going Against the Fundraising Grain: Three Unconventional Fundraising Tactics

NonProfit Hub

You can, and should, have fun to help your nonprofit raise money. This fundraiser involves all the great plot lines from your favorite spy movies: late-night attacks, betrayal, payback-counter attacks, and of course, insurance. This trend started to help raise money for Landon, a child in northwest Missouri who suffers from cancer.

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the early crowdfunding days, I helped launch a crowdfunding campaign with the American Red Cross and SXSW that raised $120,000 in 10 days. How much have we raised online in the past year? What is the average amount that we have raised in a campaign or event? How much did similar crowdfunding campaigns raise?

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” A wink and nod to a famous novel and movie in Brasil about a women with two husbands named Marcleo. It raises the question, though – Will the robots take over fundraising? The official title of the session was “Donor Engagement in An Age of Complexity.” The audience laughed.

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Racing Through the Sahara for South African NGOs

Tech Soup

Sound like the scene from an action movie or the Amazing Race? The run, set to begin today, October 2, is a 250-kilometer journey through the Sahara Desert ending at the Pyramids of Giza for the purpose of raising money for South African nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

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Experiential Marketing Through Virtual Events

AccelEvents

The event was set up like a movie set with three different healthcare environments as ‘sets’. If the goal of your campaign is to raise awareness for breast cancer, then what does that awareness look like? Here is some guidance when deciding on a goal: The goal of an experiential event should be to stir up some kind of emotion.

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